Wisconsin's resurfacing of 2.2 miles of Highway 42 in Door County will keep every one of the road's 15 famous curves exactly where they are.
By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 17, 2026
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The 2011 Nature paper 'Solutions for a Cultivated Planet' argued that halting agricultural expansion, closing yield gaps, using inputs more efficiently, shifting diets and cutting food waste could together roughly double global food production while shrinking farming's environmental footprint.
By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 14, 2026
COLI Group spent six months moving 14 GE Vernova transformers from a Turkish factory to Poland's Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, and the four largest weighed 361 tonnes each — heavy enough that a temporary elevated structure had to be built over Polish bridges that could not carry them.
By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 14, 2026
Classic Moon-formation simulations typically produced a ring of debris that assembled over months or years after a Mars-sized world struck early Earth. But simulations published in September 2026 that included temperature-dependent rock strength found that, under certain conditions, a coherent Moon-sized satellite could emerge in roughly five hours.
By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 13, 2026
The figure quoted as $7.4 trillion in annual fossil fuel subsidies is mostly not money changing hands. About $6.7 trillion of it is damage the IMF says goes uncharged, three-quarters of that from air pollution and climate, on a definition other agencies reject.
By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 12, 2026
Tom Rivett-Carnac describes stubborn optimism as grit in the face of an unavoidable challenge, not cheerfulness, and the research supports the distinction: Maria Ojala found hope based on denial predicted less pro-environmental behaviour among Swedish teenagers, while constructive hope predicted more
By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026